March 5, 2016

The Internet of Things and the Internet might seem inextricably linked, but, increasingly, there are questions centered around how IoT devices should work with one another — and what happens when the Internet connection goes down? Read More

(Steven Hayward) The caucuses have concluded in Kansas (2 pm local time) and the votes are starting to come in. Cruz has an early large lead, and given his campaign's emphasis on organizing in caucus states I wouldn't be surprised to see him win big there. There's one report in Twitter that someone has called it for Cruz already, but I can't seem to confirm this elsewhere. Here's one local news link

DETROIT (AP) - A suburban Detroit restaurant owner and his wife have been arraigned on harboring immigrants for commercial advantage and private financial gain charges that stemmed from a fire that killed five employees.

Ted Cruz is campaigning aggressively to deny Marco Rubio any chance of a home state win in Florida's Republican primary, in the hopes of knocking his rival out of the race so the Texan is left as the party's sole challenger to billionaire Donald Trump.

A Florida man who flew a small gyrocopter through protected Washington airspace before landing outside the U.S. Capitol last spring was seconds away from colliding with a Delta flight that had taken off from Reagan National Airport, prosecutors said.

In a court filing Friday, prosecutors said Douglas Hughes flew his ...

Five U.S. states hold contests on Saturday, the first test of voter sentiment since a public rupture within the Republican Party this week that pitted supporters of real estate mogul Donald Trump against a collection of establishment figures trying to block his path to the 2016 presidential nomination.

It all started as an alternative to the traditional college education. Now they've caught the eyes of deans across the country. Coding bootcamps have been a trending topic in higher education as their focus on job readiness and generous starting salaries has garnered the attention of both college students and career switchers — but those aren't the only groups that have… Read More

(Steven Hayward) Well if John can ask about Trump, why not ask the same question about Hillary. And the answer is: Yes—she believes in advancing Hillary Clinton. I'm sure deep down inside she's still the Alinsky-loving leftist she was as a college student, but like her priapic husband she cares most about her own power and status, which means she'll "triangulate" any way she has to in order to maintain political support

Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida is not surprised that Donald Trump pulled out of his appearance at annual Conservative Political Action Conference, suggesting the New York billionaire and GOP presidential front-runner is not a conservative.

Asked about Mr. Trump's absence, Mr. Rubio said, "This is the American Conservative Union, and ...

Google Street View uses in-house data-capturing tech that lets you see the world from the comfort of your own device. GSV allows us to see not only photos of certain gems on the planet, but provides new perspectives that only its cameras can capture. Read More

The Washington Post reports (http://wapo.st/1Sp4U5Z) the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit announced Friday that it'll rehear a case involving the state's 2013 ban, which prohibits the possession or sale ...

An Austin-based venture capital firm recently offered my company $400,000 for 40 percent of its equity. This was one week before their counterpart in the Bay Area offered $2 million for 20 percent of the same company. Nothing had changed in that week, and both received the same pitch and deck in the weeks prior. Read More

(Scott Johnson) In the spirit of Steve Hayward's occasional blasts from the past, I offer these words that have been going around in my head over the past week: Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites, — in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity, — in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is

WASHINGTON (AP) — Five more states are chipping in verdicts on the Republican and Democratic presidential contests in races largely overshadowed by Super Tuesday and the big contests still to come. Yet candidates eager to gather enough support to snag their party's nomination — or at least stay relevant — ...

Bagging lots of users is a challenge one of the startups in Y Combinator's 2016 winter batch is worrying about a bit less than the average. The two-man strong founder team of Thunkable is coming from the rather more comfortable position of already having fostered a community over four million strong — thanks to the drag-and-drop app builder interface they helped developed at MIT… Read More

Did you know that a Code of Conduct war is underway in the world of open-source software development? I realize that this sounds ridiculous. Codes of Conduct boil down to: "a) don't be an asshole, b) this is how we define 'asshole' around these parts". Who could argue with that? And yet this has become eruptively controversial — and with good reason. Read More

(Scott Johnson) The Clinton death march back to the White House continues. Appearing in advance of the Nebraska caucuses today, Bill Clinton campaigned yesterday on behalf of Madam Hillary in Omaha and Lincoln. The Clinton death march back to the White House continues. The Omaha World-Herald reports here. Clinton also campaigned in Lincoln. The Lincoln Journal Star report is here. Omaha attorney David Begley reports from Omaha below. I have taken the

The relatively new proximity of geek culture to the mainstream puts the old guard of nerd-dom in a difficult position. Do they continue to cling to the false idea that their interests get no mainstream respect, or do they reorient themselves to the fact that sometime around the release of Episode I their revenge was utterly, utterly complete?

The Stephen King Companion by George Beahm is written as if most of the past 20 years of pop culture didn't happen.

(Steven Hayward) Okay, this is a post about two of my favorite things: Prog rock and Hitler parody videos! I wish I had done this one, but I didn't, and it is genius. But only if you know your 70s prog rock scene really well. Otherwise it will be a complete bore, and you should move on now. But for the rest of us. . . (It's worth it for the "Olias

MILLVALE, Pa. (AP) - As she grew up attending daily and Sunday Mass six days a week at St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church in the 1950s and 1960s, Diane Novosel and her classmates were surrounded by paintings they found baffling and haunting.

Less than a day after it emerged that Amazon had quietly dropped device encryption support for its Fire tablets and other Fire OS devices, the U.S. firm has flip-flopped and said that it will restore the feature. Read More